Sasquatch! Festival Lineup Announced
By
Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 17, 2009 4:40 pm

Jane's Addiction will headline a day at this year's Sasquatch! Music Festival.
The reunited alt.rockers, who will tour with Nine Inch Nails this year, are among the first group of acts confirmed to play the festival that runs from May 23 to 25 at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Quincy, Wash. Nine Inch Nails will also headline a day, as will Kings Of Leon.
The initial lineup looks like a hipster's paradise, with Ben Harper & Relentless7, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Decemberists, TV On The Radio, Animal Collective, Bon Iver, Grizzly Bear, Girl Talk, Silversun Pickups, Santigold and others slated to appear over the weekend. More acts will be announced in the coming weeks.
Zach Galifianakis, Daily Show correspondent Demetri Martin and Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! are among those who will perform comedy sketches at this year's festival.
Tickets go on sale on Feb. 28 through the Sasquatch! website.
Here are the acts playing Sasquatch! so far:
AA Bondy
The Airborne Toxic Event
Animal Collective
Arthur & Yu
The Avett Brothers
Beach House
Ben Harper & Relentless7
Bishop Allen
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Blind Pilot
Blitzen Trapper
BLK JKS
Bon Iver
The Builders & The Butchers
Calexico
Chromeo (DJ set)
Deadmau5
Death Vessel
The Decemberists
Demetri Martin
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukelele
DeVotchKa
The Dodos
Doves
The Duchess & The Duke
Erykah Badu
Explosions In The Sky
Fences
Fleet Foxes
The Gaslight Anthem
Girl Talk
God's Pottery
Gogol Bordello
Grizzly Bear
Hockey
Horse Feathers
James Pants
Jane's Addiction
John Vanderslice
Jon Benjamin
King Khan & The Shrines
Kings Of Leon
The Knux
Loch Lomond
M. Ward
M83
Monotonix
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
Mugison
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head
Nine Inch Nails
Of Montreal
Owl City
Passion Pit
People's Republic Of Komedy
Peter Bjorn And John
The Pica Beats
Point Juncture WA
Ra Ra Riot
Santigold
School Of Seven Bells
Shearwater
Silversun Pickups
St. Vincent
The Submarines
Sun Kil Moon
Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Tobacco
Todd Barry
TV On The Radio
Vince Mira
Viva Voce
The Walkmen
The Wrens
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Zach Galifiankis
The reunited alt.rockers, who will tour with Nine Inch Nails this year, are among the first group of acts confirmed to play the festival that runs from May 23 to 25 at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Quincy, Wash. Nine Inch Nails will also headline a day, as will Kings Of Leon.
The initial lineup looks like a hipster's paradise, with Ben Harper & Relentless7, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Decemberists, TV On The Radio, Animal Collective, Bon Iver, Grizzly Bear, Girl Talk, Silversun Pickups, Santigold and others slated to appear over the weekend. More acts will be announced in the coming weeks.
Zach Galifianakis, Daily Show correspondent Demetri Martin and Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! are among those who will perform comedy sketches at this year's festival.
Tickets go on sale on Feb. 28 through the Sasquatch! website.
Here are the acts playing Sasquatch! so far:
AA Bondy
The Airborne Toxic Event
Animal Collective
Arthur & Yu
The Avett Brothers
Beach House
Ben Harper & Relentless7
Bishop Allen
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Blind Pilot
Blitzen Trapper
BLK JKS
Bon Iver
The Builders & The Butchers
Calexico
Chromeo (DJ set)
Deadmau5
Death Vessel
The Decemberists
Demetri Martin
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukelele
DeVotchKa
The Dodos
Doves
The Duchess & The Duke
Erykah Badu
Explosions In The Sky
Fences
Fleet Foxes
The Gaslight Anthem
Girl Talk
God's Pottery
Gogol Bordello
Grizzly Bear
Hockey
Horse Feathers
James Pants
Jane's Addiction
John Vanderslice
Jon Benjamin
King Khan & The Shrines
Kings Of Leon
The Knux
Loch Lomond
M. Ward
M83
Monotonix
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
Mugison
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head
Nine Inch Nails
Of Montreal
Owl City
Passion Pit
People's Republic Of Komedy
Peter Bjorn And John
The Pica Beats
Point Juncture WA
Ra Ra Riot
Santigold
School Of Seven Bells
Shearwater
Silversun Pickups
St. Vincent
The Submarines
Sun Kil Moon
Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Tobacco
Todd Barry
TV On The Radio
Vince Mira
Viva Voce
The Walkmen
The Wrens
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Zach Galifiankis
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